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...battery for flare shells to illuminate the area, then swept the slope with a barrage of machine-gun and mortar fire. Though there were no signs of bodies the next morning, the marines were delighted with the radar's performance in its first combat tests. Chuckled one machine gunner: "I'll bet they wondered how we knew they were out there...
...Richard finding himselfe in this distresse, commaunded the Master gunner to split and sinke the shippe. But the Captaine and the Master yeelded that all their lives should be saved, and Sir Richard was sent unto to remoove, the shippe being marveilous unsavorie. Sir Richard died as it is sayd, the second or third day. What became of his body we know not. His owne honour he hath not outlived...
...thousands of servicemen whose relations he called up for a personal report when he got back. Burr hobbled through his most recent Jeep-and-helicopter round last month despite a painfully pinched leg nerve, and though he rarely gabs about Perry Mason (preferring to listen to G.I. gripes), the gunner who flew with him gives the consensus: "Ray Burr is one helluva fine...
Alexander was at Glasgow from 1920 to 1963, with six years out as a major in the Second World War. "I was an anti-aircraft gunner," he said, "an old man's job." He became Regius Professor in 1935. Though he has written only on Shakespeare, he has also taught courses on the Romantic poets and on Chaucer. "I suppose I've lectured on the Victorians some, but with the death of Sir Walter Scott in 1832, the old-fashioned people like...
...supply chopper at an outpost on the Plain of Reeds west of Saigon attacked a machine-gun nest that had opened fire. Just before one rocket was dropped, it was apparently struck by a sniper's bullet and blew up, shattering the plane's Plexiglas windows; the gunner and the crew chief suffered superficial but bloody face wounds. The dialogue over the intercom betrayed no panic: "Was a rocket blew up, wasn't it?" "It was somethin'." "You O.K., O'Shea?" "Roger." "Anybody else get hit?" "You got a fat lip there, boy." During another...